Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 19 February 2007, Simon Stelling wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > every use of find | xargs in there should be fixed to use find -print0 |
> > xargs -0
>
> The second one, yes, that's fixed now. The first one, no, cause egrep
> wouldn't like it. The xargs -d'
> ' ensures that \n instead of a simple space is used as delimiter. If
> some package really installs files with a newline character in its name,
> well, then that package is just not worth including in emul-packages.

i'd point out that grep does have an option for dealing with NUL delimited 
data (-z), but that isnt POSIX so the bsd guys would prob complain :P

that said, the syntax you're using is ugly:
xargs -d'
'

replace that with:
xargs -d $'\n'
-mike